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TheOne  ·  1380 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Beijing has been locked down.

Blaming the wet markets again too. How gullible do they think we are? Lol

“The surges in two of Asia's biggest capitals serve as a clear warning to America and all other countries: reopening risks reinfection.”

TheOne  ·  1789 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Amazon automatically tracks and fires warehouse workers for ‘productivity’

After this story ran, Amazon spokesperson Ashley Robinson reached out with a statement that pushed back against The Verge‘s reporting — but failed to provide specific examples of inaccuracies.

“Similar to many companies, we have performance expectations regardless of whether they are corporate or fulfillment center employees,” read the statement. “We support people who do not perform to the levels expected of them with dedicated coaching to help them improve and be successful in their career at Amazon. We would never dismiss an employee without first ensuring that they had received our fullest support, including dedicated coaching to help them improve and additional training. Since we’re a company that continues to grow, it’s our business objective to ensure long-term career development opportunities for our employees.”

TheOne  ·  1789 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cosmology Has Some Big Problems

"The crux of today's cosmological paradigm is that in order to maintain a mathematically unified theory valid for the entire universe, we must accept that 95 percent of our cosmos is furnished by completely unknown elements and forces for which we have no empirical evidence whatsoever. "

TheOne  ·  1811 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Falcon Heavy Launches Into Orbit and Sticks Its Landings for First Operational Mission

It boasts 27 engines, more than any other working rocket has ever used, which together create a combined 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff. That means the Falcon Heavy can put around 140,000 pounds of cargo into lower Earth orbit, more than twice as much weight as any other operational rocket.

TheOne  ·  1817 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Bad Is It to Let Your Cat Outside?

Frustrated kitties leave home for a couple of hours, for hunting reasons, just to come back again cutest than ever for their owners, of course. It's like you don't give your precious cat her favorite yummy wet food and the next thing you know she's out the door cursing and yelling, getting ready for a kill (poor little innocent birdies).

Fictional scenario, please take it as such.

TheOne  ·  1817 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Human Factors of Tesla Autopilot

Interesting reading.

6 days ago I read about how Tesla’s autopilot tricked into driving on the wrong side of the road. That was also an interesting reading.

TheOne  ·  1819 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Brexit and Charles de Gaulle’s Last Laugh

I'm so fed up with Brexit news... Every time I open google news, the first one is with Brexit. The same thing on other news websites.

TheOne  ·  1819 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Even Viruses Can Get Infected With Other Viruses

I liked the article. Great reading.

Also, from Wikipedia:

"Sputnik was first isolated in 2008 from a sample obtained from humans; it was harvested from the contact lens fluid of an individual with keratitis.[5] Naturally however, the Sputnik virophage has been found to multiply inside species of the opportunistically pathogenic protozoan Acanthamoeba, but only if that amoeba is infected with the large mamavirus. Sputnik harnesses the mamavirus proteins to rapidly produce new copies of itself."